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for all of you who are wondering why i dont have a psychiatrist
this article seemingly describes a widespread issue within young people
who are "transitioning" from adolescent to adult mental health support.
its very acurate. and has upset me quite. things shouldnt be this way and i am getting iller and iller and there is nothing there to stop me.
there is no net to catch me, just a huge gaping hole for me to fall through
until i deemed mental enough to recieve mental health support. i will just continue to just slip and slip and slip.
the threshold is so high that i need to be running down the street naked talking to god and posting fish in envelopes to the prime minister before i will ever get any sort of help/diagnosis or control over this wreckless disease.
please check out this link to help understand my dilemma and why, it isnt as simple as "go to your p.doc. change your meds."
http://www.youngminds.org.uk/about/our_campaigns/transitions
this article seemingly describes a widespread issue within young people
who are "transitioning" from adolescent to adult mental health support.
its very acurate. and has upset me quite. things shouldnt be this way and i am getting iller and iller and there is nothing there to stop me.
there is no net to catch me, just a huge gaping hole for me to fall through
until i deemed mental enough to recieve mental health support. i will just continue to just slip and slip and slip.
the threshold is so high that i need to be running down the street naked talking to god and posting fish in envelopes to the prime minister before i will ever get any sort of help/diagnosis or control over this wreckless disease.
please check out this link to help understand my dilemma and why, it isnt as simple as "go to your p.doc. change your meds."
http://www.youngminds.org.uk/about/our_campaigns/transitions
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I find myself going places in the car and not wanting to get out of the car. I come back home and I don't want to get out of the car. I think it's the only time I spend reflecting. Chronic tiredness from Long Covid plus the immunosupressing meds for my Crohn's is slowing me down but everything just seems a massive effort. I am dealing with the paperwork following my father's death but it's not...
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Wow, it's the middle of the week already!Today is our 11 year anniversary, so we're going out to a nice dinner. I'm losing a lot of sleep these days, hence a wonky schedule and uncomfortable feelings. But I know it will pass, eventually.I hope all of you have a peaceful day, and may good things come your way!
i cant speak for everyone in the UK. some people have had very good experiences. however like this article has said - it is a post code lottery and i live in a shit area apparently.
could all just be nothing. i'll end up in an early grave. SO ANGRY.
well it would have been this year but i was psychotic for exams two years ago that put me a year behind academically. 2013 now.
i'll have to go up to my GP and start the ladder again to adult services. the last time i saw them i was relatively well but thats because during wait of referral and appointment i had a swing of mood and had felt very positive very healthy and hypomaniac.
perhaps it will be an emergency referral if i explain these hallucinations. i know ive been going on about them alot on the board.
but i live on my own i have no family and i go days before i speak to another human being. its my only contact. thanks for the reply it really makes a difference x
Honestly, this is unconscionable. To allow young people to perhaps fall off the tracks, and between the cracks? Of all demographics, young ppl are our greatest asset, and our future.
And what scares me is the fact that Britain is actually playing with fire, concerning this unreal policy. Bipolar Disorder is a very fast-moving illness; and just like that, if someone falls either into a depressive or a manic state, all hell can break loose. Not that it is in any way the PERSON'S fault, but manic states can become extremely violent, and carry the potential for violence, if it's not a "happy" mania. And for the poor kids who fall into depressive episodes - guess it doesn't matter, THEY just kill themselves. (Kind of reminds me of the old UB40 song "One in Ten"....I'm another teenage suicide, in a world that doesn't care...).
My heart goes out to you Mush - very bad situation for you to be in. It's not fair, it's unethical, and this stunning policy is just downright WRONGFUL. Shame on the Brits.
Mush made the point as does the article that it's a postcode lottery. I'm guessing the London and a few other places I could name are struggling.
I've not been back to South Wales (specifically the valleys around Aberdare) for some time but I can imagine it isn't a great area for mental health - just one reason why people leave for England.
Mush, I don't have any particular advice other than "leave".
like i said so many people have positive experiences and it just seems to be my bad luck that i live where i do.
i feel bad for slating our care because lets be fair free health care ,that is a high standard what do i have to complain about. i know i am not the only person who has not received the care they deserve not only here in south wales but widespread internationally.
i could be very much worse off, but when im feeling like this its difficult to realise how lucky i am.
i am placing all my hopes on the health care services around the university i will attend in 2013.
some of the uni's durham/york/bristol in particular have specified a really strong mental health team within the university itself.
this has really given a lot of hope because i won't be staying in wales for long, once i've left it's a no going back situation, england really does seem to offer a lot better treatment, but obviously thats varied aswell as you said about the london areas being a bit naff also.
university. is all i am living for at the minute if it wasnt for my intelligence i would have taken my life a long time ago. i just know i need to hold on for something.
I'm guessing you will be going Sept 2013?
I'm sorry. I would get with a financial planner and really plan out the next few years.
i dont quite understand why i need financial advice achala ?
thanks halter i'll try my best !X
The article did not make clear nor indicate that this scenario might not necessarily apply to those living in the likes of Wales, Northern England, nor Scotland, whereby such deficiencies of therapists might exist. I am living in the big smoke, whereby all these services are a dime a dozen.
But I think my general argument might (continue to be!) the fact that of ALL population groups, based on what was written, budgets should not be balanced on the backs of the backs of young ppl who fall between a gap. But as a general cynic, having seen it all with age now lol! I tend to feel that budgets tend to get balanced on the backs of those people with the least voting power, influence, and $$$$. For example, our SENIORS HERE (Whom I equally love to death!), DO carry enormous clout, as they are regular voters, can sway policies one way or another, as they are a large voting bloc, and they can contribute generously to issues and campaigns.
16, 17 year olds.. where-ever!!!! Don't carry this clout or influence. Plus, feel a bit more strongly about the $$$ being poured into mental health in Britain, based on an extensive article I read a couple of weeks ago in The Guardian - cutbacks in mental health, pertaining to the fact that occurring things there relate to an ECONOMIC state, rather than a MENTAL HEALTH state.....so that the U.K government were apprehensive of recognizing the extent of the mental health crisis in the U.K., and trying to justify upcoming cutbacks by blowing the reality of it all off in a very clinical fashion.
I guess that Mush's article, coupled with The Guardian's one, caused me pause for concern. But, ABSOLUTE APOLOGIES sent to those English folks who took my final sentence as an insult.....but lol.....how many times have I typed "shame on the U.S."....."Shame on the Irish Government and their sleezebag politicians"......and "THUNDERING SHAME ON THE DARNED R.C. CHURCH....will ya look at this!!!"....even tho I'm a daily mass attender lolol!!!!!!! Kathleen